August 2014

Author of our English for the More Able series, Vicky Burrill, picks out 10 books to engage and inspire your students.

In this first blog article, out of a series of two, Sarah-Anne Fernandes discusses the 'selected response' type questions that pupils will face in their maths reasoning paper.

Scaled scores and standardised scores – what’s the difference?

With so many different assessment measures being used throughout primary schools, we’re often asked to clarify the difference between them. So we’ve gone back to the drawing board to provide some quick facts about two key test outcomes: scaled scores and standardised scores (because while both show performance, they aren’t quite the same thing).

In this blog article, Nick Hart discusses the effectiveness of using real-life problems in maths.

In this blog article, John Dabell demonstrates how maths can be combined with magic tricks to bring numbers to life.

Every day in March, we will be sharing Year 6 questions from Assessment Bank on Twitter and Facebook which you can use to test your class' knowledge ahead of the National Tests.

We are excited to announce that RS Assessment from Hodder Education has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘Best Use of Formative Assessment’ category for the e-Assessment Awards 2018!